I think any other publisher would completely ruin it, sorry. I've just seen franchises get sold and franchised to death with different developers, reboots and so forth. I just couldn't stand it if it happened to MK.

Maybe UbiSoft could keep it going and still have Midway developing the games but Ubi owning the franchise, slightly similar terms to the whole 'Wheelman situation'. I think that EA and Activision would drill it to death.

I understand your skeptisism. But what if a good dev bought it? For all you know there's a dev out there that could make it a great franchise.

IMO, devs out there should be fighting for this franchise. If you take MK and make it great, it's money in the bank. A legendary franchise to own. It's up for grabs. I hope EA/ubisoft/activision don't buy it. They'll just make crap 'product' out of it.

I didn't read the article but from answering the headline I can say I think it would be good for Sony to buy the MK franchise. Fight games are the biggest in Japan and even though MK is not big in Japan, if Sony was to buy it and put one of the Japan studio teams on development I'm pretty sure they would knock it out the park. Sony also has a ton of franchises but no fighting games so it could really fill the void. And since Sony owns movie studios they could make another MK movie and I liked the MK movies :)

Nobody except 360 owners who want to feel good about having a studio left care about Rare anymore.

EDIT- mintaro, way to go doing the fanboy to defend the fanboy. Nobody except 360 owners who cream over exclusives (what ever they are) cares about Rare and Killer Instinks. Seriously, have you ever heard anyone (outside of 360 fanboys) ever mention Rare's game when talking about the good fighting games? There's WAY better fight games. A lot of them. Sorry.

if rare did pick it up we would see a killer instinct/mortal kombat game with awesome fatalities...

butttt i think capcom or EA will try picking this one up...capcom passing on this would be a major mistake because they will control 2 of the most prominent fighting franchises ever...mortal kombat and street fighter

EA picking this up would result in a MK game coming out every single year and turning into reiteration after reiteration like the madden franchise...Mortal Kombat 2012 anyone???

As weird as it sounds...I think Incognito could pull this off. They deserve to get some praise. Revamping the Mortal Kombat series would bring them up to a high status in the gaming industry. Warhawk was severely underrated. Maybe they could give it a good storyline or something...haha.

I'd like to see a brawler. Maybe they could even include some other Sony characters. Kratos, Helghast, Sweet Tooth, Jak, and Nariko...anyone?

Sony???!!! We can barely even afford to pay our own employees now, not to mention that we have been in the same place this generation for the past three years and nothing we do seems to change that. I don't know how much of that pot you guys have borrowed from Michael Phelps, but it's clear from your retarded comments that it's a lot.

I don't know people are throwing Sony's name around. What good fighting game have they or any of their studios made that would make anyone comfortable with them taking the reigns of a popular fighting franchise? Too risky if you ask me. Let Sony stick to the genres that they do best, or take a risk with a fighting series less established.